It was a baptism by Hollywood.
In 1994, Kamala Harris was a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, working across the San Francisco Bay, but already of some renown in San Francisco for her relationship with local power broker (and future mayor) Willie Brown. At Brown’s surprise 60th birthday party, Herb Caen, the legendary city columnist, introduced Harris, 29, as Brown’s “new steady” to Clint Eastwood, fresh off two of the biggest hits of his career, Unforgiven and In the Line of Fire.
He promptly spilled champagne on her.
Thirty years later,…
